TABLE-China's new paraxylene plants on stream through 2023

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SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - China is starting up a total
of 10 million tonnes of new plants making paraxylene, a chemical
used to make synthetic textile fibre and bottles, from March
2019 to March 2020.
The new PX capacity could force leading exporters in South
Korea and Japan, as well as in the Middle East to cut production
as early as the second quarter of next year.
The world's top consumer of paraxylene, China imports 60% of
its need for the chemical to feed its polyester demand that has
more than doubled since 2010. Over half of China's PX imports
come from South Korea and Japan.
At 10 million tonnes, that's equal to South Korea's total PX
industry and tripling that of Japan.
Between 2020-2023, China could add another 14 million tonnes
of annual capacity of the chemical, with most of the plants
integrated with large crude oil refineries.
Reuters compiled the below list of new plants, based on
industry sources，company reports and Chinese commodities
consultancy JLC.
(Paraxylene in 1,000 tonnes a year and crude distillation
capacity in barrels per day.)
Plant location PX CDU Start-up
Capacity capacity
Hengli Dalian 4,500 400,000 Q1-19
Zhejiang Zhoushan 4,000 400,000 Q1-20
Petrochemical
Sinopec Hainan Hainan 1,000 200,000 Q3-19
Hongrun Shandong 700 140,000 Q3-19
Hengyi Brunei 1,500 160,000 Q4-19
Sub total 11,700
Sinopec Jiujiang Jiujiang 890 160,000 2021
Shenghong Group Lianyungang 2,800 320,000 2022
Zhejiang Zhoushan 4,000 400,000 2023
Petrochemical
PetroChina Jieyang Jieyang 2,600 400,000 2022
Zhongjin Ningbo 2,000 N/A 2020
Petrochemical
Risun Group Tangshan 2,000 300,000 2023
Sub total 14,290
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; editing by Christian Schmollinger)